Travel in New Zealand

Date
31 January - 7 February 1959
Reference
PA12-8780
Description

Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Lake Coleridge, the Rakaia River, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki showing the outflow river, views from the Hermitage (including Mts Sefton and Cook), terminal moraine in the Tasman Valley, and Ball Hut and the botanising ground with gentians and mountain daisies.

Slides on this sheet are numbered 176-206 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. (No. 175 of Lake Coleridge, is not noted on this sheet, but is one of those removed for the lecture series).

Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. [175], 178-179, 181-184, 189, 191-194, 197, 204) showing views of Lake Coleridge and country around, Rakaia River, the road to Mount Cook (Aoraki/Mount Cook), Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Hermitage Hotel, and the Tasman Valley from Ball Hut looking up the glaciers. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences.

Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Part of
Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
Format
18 colour original transparency/ies slides, Transparencies, Dye coupler slides, 35mm
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